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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.
The secret of happiness is simply this... your happiness does NOT depend on getting what you want.
The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.
My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.
Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness
Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.
If you want to do one good thing in the world, the best thing you can do is give other people joy.
even though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man.
Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.
The only thing over which you have complete right of control at all times is your mental attitude.
Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.
When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist
When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness.
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.
If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again.
When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.
[Slogan of her 'Trouble Bureau' for needy artists and musicians:] Happiness is a change of trouble.
The power of cosmetics and the effect they can have on one's happiness and confidence is very real.
If I must be faithful to someone or something, I have, first of all, have to be faithful to myself.
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
If an illusion makes a man happy, destroy that illusion! Because happiness must come via the truth!
If you see a door to happiness, do not waste your time knocking it, just open the door and walk in!
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.
Being on top of the world doesn't mean anything unless you know what it's like to be at the bottom.
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.
Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people brings happiness.
My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.
Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.
Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.
As soon as anyone starts telling you to be "realistic," cross that person off your invitation list.
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.